Series One · 47 legends

The legends who built the software the world runs on.

A collectible trading-card series honoring the creators of open source — from the kernel to the compiler. Open-licensed artwork, limited physical packs, and on-chain collectibles.

Card data & art are CC BY-SA 4.0 — fork it, print it, remix it.

47Legends in Series One
30On the Series Two roster
CC BY-SAOpen-licensed art
3Ways to collect
Series Two · In progress

Hacking Legends

The next set covers the other half of the story: the phone phreaks, worm authors, disclosure architects and defenders who found the holes in all of this. 30 names on the working roster, 30 of them illustrated, 10 stat lines locked — and nominations are still open.

Series Three · In progress

Security Professionals

And the half that had to clean up: cryptographers, firewall builders, incident responders, tool authors and the security chiefs who answered for the breach. 50 of 50 names drafted, art not started, and the cuts are still up for argument.

Series Four · In progress

Gods of AI

The architects of machine learning: backpropagation, attention and reinforcement learning, plus the people who wrote the frameworks, kernels and quantisers the field runs on. 50 cards, scored explicitly on how much they gave away, 50 of 50 illustrated from real photographs.

Series Five · In progress

Women in Tech

One hundred and eighty years of it: the first compiler, the first assembler, the ARM instruction set, the Apollo guidance software, and the code of conduct in your repository. 50 cards, 50 of 50 illustrated from real photographs. Series One has forty-seven cards and no women on any of them, which is the reason this set exists.

Series Six · In progress

Tech CEOs

Every other set here cards the person who wrote the thing. This one cards the person who decided it would be built, and whether it would be given away: the billion dollars IBM put behind Linux, Java under the GPL, the GitHub acquisition. 50 cards, 50 of 50 illustrated from real photographs.

Collect

Three ways to own a legend

Physical

Foil trading packs

Premium 350gsm cards with holographic rarity foils, shipped worldwide. Blind packs of 5 or the full collector's box.

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Digital · NFT

On-chain collectibles

Mint a legend as a verifiable digital collectible. Each mint funds the open-source projects it celebrates. Optional — no wallet required to browse.

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Open Source

Print your own

Every card's art and stats are CC BY-SA 4.0. Download the source, print at home, or submit a new legend by pull request.

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Know a legend we missed?

The set is community-curated and built in the open. Nominate a maintainer, design a card, or improve the stats — every legend starts as a pull request.